22/27 I suppose I shall have to kill old Croft too. I am sorry for that, but it can't be helped; besides, if anything should happen to Jess, Bessie will take Mooifontein, and that is worth having. Not that I want more land; I have enough. It would serve her right if I didn't; but, after all, marriage is more respectable; also one has more hold of a wife. |